English Garden History Quotes & Sayings

I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains. — Anna Neagle

quit trying to fix things and we settled into our long polite and quiet life. — Kent Haruf

Let-go means no competition, no struggle, no fight ... just relaxing with existence, wherever it leads. Not trying to control your future, not trying to control consequences, but allowing them to happen ... not even thinking about them. Let-go is in the present; consequences are tomorrow. And let-go is such a delightful experience, a total relaxation, a deep synchronicity with existence — Rajneesh

To get Swaraj is to get rid of our helplessness. — Mahatma Gandhi

The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream ... Hang in there. — James De La Vega

I think my parents were really smart parents. I think they were, actually, pretty progressive for the time. The one thing that they really wanted me to know is what makes me tick, what I am about, how I approach life. And I think what my parents really wanted for me was for me to be who I am. — Rich Mullins

There's a passage in John Steinbeck's "East of Eden" that does a pretty good job describing California's rainfall patterns:

The water came in a 30-year cycle. There would be five to six wet and wonderful years when there might be 19 to 25 inches of rain, and the land would shout with grass. Then would come six or seven pretty good years of 12 to 16 inches of rain. And then the dry years would come ... — John Steinbeck

Dreams don't come from nowhere. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

It's real important to enjoy your turn. — Shirley Maclaine

Can we trust him, you think?" he — Diana Palmer

[T]he content of the discourse should be about loving the un-lovable object ... The beloved and the friend are the immediate and direct objects of immediate love, the choice of passion and of inclination. And what is the ugly? It is the neighbor, whom one shall love (373). — Soren Kierkegaard

As long as she is alive and well and happy in this world, I will find a way to be happy as well, even if it is not beside her — Cassandra Clare

British garden history is best understood as a small incident in the histories of ideas, design and technology. — Tom Turner

The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he's with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit. — Michael Ondaatje